Straight-talking ex-Navy Seal Rudy Boesch should win the $1 million “Survivor” show jackpot, according to Post readers who cast their ballots for the 72-year-old Vietnam vet.

“Rudy is basically smart enough to make friends, not enemies,” said Bob Ticherner of Bronxville, who participated in the “Post Flash-Fax Poll.”

Felicia James of Manhattan says Rudy should win because “everyone else [on the show] are snakes.”

Post readers balked at Boesch’s rival – Rhode Island’s Richard Hatch – whose much-admired boardroom savvy built him an alliance with other survivalists that has kept him in the show.

Readers believe Hatch is a sleaze in disguise who doesn’t deserve to win.

“Richard is an ego-driven back-stabber,” said one Manhattanite.

Also throwing in support for “the no-frills” Boesch is Larry Wolf of Naples, Fla., who says rival Hatch should be banished from the island with other survivalists who were too busy plotting against each other rather than testing their grit in the wilderness.

“Rudy is the least political and contentious,” said Wolf. “He is no threat to anyone. He deserves it after spending all those weeks with those self-absorbed yuppies.”

Of the scores who responded, the only reader who said he likes Hatch is Steven Chaddock of Long Island City.

“He is very cunning and entertaining,” Chaddock said. “I’m surprised no one threw him a … party for being rotten and outright nasty.”

Hatch’s divide-and-conquer strategy could backfire when the castaways he helped get kicked off the island return to the show as “jurors,” and name the winner Wednesday in a two-hour special.

Another favorite is Kelly Wigelsworth, a river guide from Kernville, Nev., who got kudos for being “the most honest.”

Laurie Furman of Middletown, N.J., says Wigelsworth should win because “the other people are obnoxious.”